Fallout 4 Quest Old Guns

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1. Fallout 4 Old Guns Quest Bug

• What is the Old Guns Glitch Fix? Miss Fitting Fallout 4 Old Guns Glitch Fix 1. The Fallout 4 Old Guns Glitch Fix is a possible solution for users who are having a hard time completing this minute men quest.
• Seems that, as long as a Minutemen/Recruit quest is open, regardless the stage it had been triggered, the Old Guns quest will not be triggered until you did the last/open quest. That means, in my case, complete all open Minutemen/Recruit quests that are still open after completing the Taking Independence quest. Worked for me.

Old Guns is both a quest and achievement/trophy in Fallout 4.

Synopsis[editedit source]

With the Commonwealth Minutemen officially being back in business, Ronnie Shaw, an experienced Minuteman commander from the Minutemen's days of glory, has arrived at the Castle to join the faction once again. Using the the newly powered radio equipment to call in the general, they are tasked by her to rebuild the Minutemen artillery support, which can later be used to call in tactical strikes, as well as to help bring stability back to the Commonwealth should the general stick with the Minutemen until the end.

Walkthrough[editedit source]

The Sole Survivor can first get this quest by interacting with Preston Garvey after activating Radio Freedom, or by consistently listening to Radio Freedom, after completing the quest Taking Independence.

1. Return to the Castle.
2. Speak to Ronnie Shaw at the Castle.
3. Follow Shaw. She will take the Sole Survivor to the west bastion, where they will learn about the armory blocked behind the bulkhead in front of them. Since the gate cannot be opened from the outside, she will then lead the Sole Survivor to the prior general's room, where she remembers of a tunnel that will lead to the backdoor of the armory. The tunnel is found to be blocked by debris, however, and the SOle Survivor will need to remove the debris by going into building mode, and scraping the debris to clear the path to the Castle tunnels.
4. While the path to the prior general's room is fairly simple, it is seen to be laced with numerous fragmentation mines, as well as a hostile machinegun turret.
5. Upon entering the last stretch of the catacomb, there is a hostile sentry bot dubbed Sarge, in which Shaw will comment on it after its destruction. Shaw will then move on to interact with the computer to open the security door, where the body of GeneralMcGann can be found, clutching to his alcohol.
6. Upon entering the armory, Shaw will open the bulkhead by use of a nearby button (which can be continually interacted with), in which the armory can now be accessed from the courtyard. At this point, Shaw will instruct the Sole Survivor to pick up the artillery schematic, as well as the artillery smoke grenades.
7. Once the schematics have been picked up, as well as the signal grenades, Shaw will further instruct the Sole Survivor to build an artillery piece at the Castle. Build the artillery anywhere allowed, within or on the Castle walls, and then assign a settler to the artillery to move on to the next step.
8. Speak to Shaw again, and she will have the Sole Survivor equip the smoke grenades, and head over to a target area just outside of the Castle, in which they will need to throw a smoke grenade near the building and cars, and watch as the artillery makes short work of the area.
9. Once the artillery has finished firing, head back to Preston Garvey and talk to him to finish the quest.

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Old Guns is a Minutemen main quest and achievement/trophy in Fallout 4.

Quick walkthroughEdit

Detailed walkthroughEdit

Starting the questEdit

This quest can be received from Preston Garvey in Sanctuary at a certain point in the game. Alternatively, a few days after securing the Castle, one will be approached and engaged in conversation by a woman named Ronnie Shaw, or by listening to Radio Freedom. She tells of the Castle's untapped armory. After some dialogue, the Old Guns quest will begin. Ronnie will lead the player to a large hydraulic steel door within the Castle. Since the door cannot be opened from the outside, the player character will need to find another way around. Ronnie then leads them inside the Castle's halls into the old general's office where a hallway (now blocked by rubble) leads to the armory.

Lower tunnelsEdit

Ronnie Shaw will ask to clear the rubble. Using the workshop, the Sole Survivor can scrap the rubble and gain access to the lower tunnels leading to the armory. Inside are a few rooms with general junk and a shelf with ten cannonballs for the Broadsider. There are also some minor defenses--mines and a single level-dependent turret. This initial area has some environmental radiation. Just beyond, across from the chemistry station is a power generator with a fusion core.

Guarding the far entrance is a heavy sentry bot called Sarge. Once the bot is destroyed, Shaw will gain access into the next room where General McGann's body is found and a computer containing his last entries. The next door leads to the West Bastion.

West BastionEdit

Shaw will access a terminal that will open the armory. Inside is an array of plunder, including an artillery schematic and some artillery smoke grenades (inside a yellow ammo box container on the metal shelf), which are needed for the next part of the quest. After taking the schematic, it will add an artillery piece to the workshop under a new Special category. Speak to Ronnie and she will ask to build the artillery piece. Place it (some pre-existing spots exist on the walls if preferred) and assign a settler to them. After doing this, speak to Ronnie again and she wants to test the new artillery.

Testing the Artillery GunsEdit

Shaw asks the Sole Survivor to keep the Minutemen radio station on Radio Freedom (optional) and to throw a grenade into the test site (shown on the compass, and with a quest marker). If the radio station is on, the Sole Survivor will hear Ronnie speaking on it. On approaching the test site, throw an artillery smoke grenade into the site and step back. After a few seconds the guns will fire and Ronnie will say the test was a success. After this, speak to Preston Garvey and complete the quest.

Quest stagesEdit

Companions reactionsEdit

• John Hancock is indifferent to accepting or completing the quest, but likes watching the artillery fire destroy the area around the target building.
• Danse will dislike activating the artillery if he is present during the quest.

NotesEdit

• Sarge will commonly be unable to pass the archway leading out from the long room he spawns in.
• Most companions will like testing the artillery guns, so one may consider sending companions without max affinity to the Castle before advancing this quest. However, Danse will dislike using the artillery; alluding to the fact that The Prydwen could be destroyed with these weapons (as seen in With Our Powers Combined).
• After a day has passed and the artillery has been fired, Ronnie Shaw will become available as a weapon vendor and sell The Last Minute. She is active during typical merchant hours, and the quest does not need to be turned into Preston before she offers her service.

Behind the scenesEdit

There is a reference to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe during this quest. After entering the locked room with General McGann's body inside, the player character can find Amontillado wine next to the corpse as well as a broken wall with a skeleton shackled inside across from the body. In the short story, a man hates another for insulting him. As revenge for the slight, the murderer lures his victim down into a cellar by promising him a drink of Amontillado wine, and buries him alive inside a wall in this same fashion. This short story was actually based on an urban legend about Fort Independence, wherein an officer is buried alive by the soldiers for killing a favored officer in a duel. In-game the wine bottle has the name 'P. Edgar' written on it.

BugsEdit

• PC Deactivating Sarge with the Robotics perk doesn't trigger the next script, therefore the player character needs to destroy the robot to proceed or on PC open console and type setstage 000aa778 470. If Ronnie still does not react set the stage to 480 to open the door.^[verified]
• PC If starting the quest after having already retrieved either the artillery blueprints or smoke grenades (via console commands, etc), one will not be able to progress. However, this can be fixed by adding the smoke grenades to the inventory if not having any. This can be done with the console command player.additem 0012e2ca. If the quest still does not proceed, teleport through the wall by getting the door open or toggling noclip and grab the blueprint from the table.^[verified]
• PC Ronnie Shaw may get stuck 'taking a knee' if knocked out during the fight with Sarge, preventing her from progressing the quest. Going back upstairs and returning, or sleeping in a bed in the room seems to reset her and allows her to work on the terminal.^[verified]
• PC When exiting the Tunnels into the West Bastion, Ronnie may loiter in the room with the button to open the metal door to the bastion and not proceed down the hall to the armory; attempting to talk to her will not initiate conversation and the quest will not proceed. Using console commands to place her near the armory doors will cause her to eventually enter it, and the quest will proceed normally.
• PCPlaystation 4Xbox One Ronnie stops being a vendor and gets locked in 'trade mode' when talked to even when she is in the armory. Seems to happen at random.^[verified]
• PC Tuning into Radio Freedom after throwing the smoke grenade may cause the broadcaster to leave his post and refuse to return.^[verified] To fix:
  • Open up console using ~
  • Select the radio transmitter (hex value should be 0009FF48[EP])
  • Type: setpapyrusvar bAllowPlayerAssignment True.
  • Assign any settler to the radio transmitter; this should force the Minuteman to sit down and start using it again.

Fallout 4 Old Guns Quest Bug

• PC The artillery may fail to fire after throwing the smoke grenade, completing all other quest objectives without triggering the 'Speak to Preston Garvey' objective, rendering the quest unbeatable. Applying the radio-fix above, and then throwing another smoke grenade to the same area as earlier in the quest, can trigger the artillery, and the quest will continue.^[verified] Another possible fix is to use a command to modify the timescale:
  • Open up console using ~
  • Type: set timescale 50.
  • Wait and see if the artillery is firing and if your quest can go on.
  • Revert back to timescale default value, type: set timescale 20.
• PCPlaystation 4 The radio operator may complain that he can not use the radio as it needs more power even though the required amount of power is provided. He then refuses to sit at the radio and no other NPC can be assigned to the task. If it occurs before this quest is completed, it renders this quest uncompleteable. Could be linked with Ronnie Shaw suddenly ceasing to be a vendor.^[verified]
• PC Ronnie gets stuck behind the door that the computer terminal needs to open and the terminal says inaccessible. This happens when Ronnie takes a knee in the hallway prior to entering the room with the sentry bot. When a bottle cap mine is placed at the right corner of the room's doorway and the the mine goes off (triggered by the sentry bot), Ronnie disappears and the sentry bot gets stuck. Once the bot is defeated, Ronnie appears behind the security door and cannot come through to unlock the terminal.^[verified]
• PCPlaystation 4 When doing this quest, once underground in the Castle's armory, there is a chance Ronnie Shaw can die and spawn in the other side of the room preventing her from opening the door that only she is able to open, which is game breaking as it prevents you from completing the quest.^[verified]
  • PC To fix, move Ronnie to the player with 55ec9.moveto player.
• PC When Ronnie leads the player outside for a test firing after building the artillery and collecting the smoke grenades, if extensive work had been done on the walls and/or outside prior or before this quest, Ronnie will continually attempt to reach the location needed for the test fire, but the quest will never progress.^[verified]
  • PC To fix, progress the stage manually with setstage Min03 800.

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